Wednesday, May 27, 2009

office musings

My situation:

I have several thousand dollars of credit card debt, which I wish to repay as soon as possible.

My Questions:

1. Can I borrow money from my friend and payback my loan? I can payback my friend when I have money in next few years.2. Can I loan money from multiple friends?3. What if I receive it as a gift from friend? Which I don’t have to pay back.4. In any of the above cases, what is the limit (if any) for a friend giving the loan, as well as a limit for me to receive the loan from a friend and all together from friends?5. Do any of us (me or friend) has to pay any tax?

Essentially, I have friend(s) willing to loan me money; to pay off my debt and save heavy interest charges on the credit card. I am not sure of any tax/other IRS implications with this scenario.

Monday, June 16, 2008

this is what i called...... technology.

we were watching the US Open on my friend's LG voyagermobile phone while we were walking to my car. along the wayin my car, we were yelling and screaming wanting Tiger Woodsto win. when we arrived at the noodle place, those people werewatching Austria and Germany playing. so....talking abouttechnology, i was watching both games live and i sawMichael Pollack scored his first goal of the game on the 49min.after lunch as we were driving back to the office, we saw howTiger Woods won the 2008 US Open.

now....this is what i called..... a good lunch and some awesome sports.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

now that really caught my attention.

what's the problem with this dude?

i left my office and i was on my way home. i spotted somevery loud noise and i thought some fighter jets were flyingaround doing their training.

however, the noise was getting louder and louder and i thoughtone of jets was about to crash. i was beginning to freak out andall of a sudden, the traffic came to a stand still. then i realized thatthe light was red and the noise went away.

i started to drive again when the lights turned green and the veryirritating noise was somehow behind me. later, a car passed me andi realized the noise was coming from that car. i then heard somepeople yelling, "You shouldn't be driving this car. You gonna hurtsomeone. Get out of the road now. "

i took this photo and i wasn't sure how far did the driver drove thecar with this condition. anyway, someone tailed this car and theydrove into the shooping complex and i lost them. anyway, here is thephoto.

yes, the tire is gone and the car was driven on the wheel andit was scratching the road real bad and making a deep groove.i wasn't sure what happened but i was glad that the fighter jetdid not crash onto mira mesa blvd.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

what the h*ll is PERIOD.

my co-worker was showing me some stuff. i was typing on whathe was telling me until he ended with PERIOD. somehow, i typed DOT.he was like, stunned ..... what are you doing. afterwards, i asked him;what is this PERIOD that you are trying to tell me. all of these happenedlike in a reflects action where PERIOD just did not register to mygrey-thing-in-my-cranium. he pointed to my keyboard where thePERIOD is and he looked confused. i was embarrassed and i told him,for some reason, i knew what a PERIOD is until then. i explained tohim that i was born with a FULL-STOP. at times, PERIOD is justbelongs to the X-FILES.

internet is down. is that good news or bad news to u?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-Optic_Link_Around_the_Globe (FLAG)

http://www.flagtelecom.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamewe

ha..... can we live without the internet? my first initial thought is;what would happen to the world if the internet is down a week.if i blog more on this subject, i think i can come up with a movie.i will talk to John Williams for his music and steven spielberg fordirecting. it will sure be a big blockbuster.

i had a dream.

i had a dream.

i was at this place. this place was like a loft with a big room and somehuge pillars with high ceiling. then i saw some things dropped tothe floor. i bent down and they were a couple of the fuses for theoil candle.

i could remember clearly i was like 8 to 10 years old. my latemum's mum back in malaysia will always get a glass, fill it withwater and then add some oil. later, she will put the fuse which isattached to a cork and then the thing will float. she will then lightthe fuse and it will keep burning until the oil runs out. those arefor religious prayers. yeah, sometimes i will help her to prepare theoil candle and she will light them. later, i will help her bring themto the altar. i will help her refill with more oil sometimes. shecomplains a lot about the missing fuses since the mice like to stealthem.

anyway, i picked them up and at this point, things are like superslow-motion. i slowly picked them up and turned around and saw her.she looked like the way she was. her hair was well groomed. her clothingswere clean and tidy. her warmth appearance is always there. i would say,she looked exactly the same like i used to see her when i was a child.i gave the fuses to her and gave her a hug. upon hugging her, i cried. theni felt my pillow is getting damped and that's when i woke up..... still crying.i was like...... WOW...... it was so real.... i saw her!!

she is the one that protects me when i get beat up by my mum. sheevens quarrels with my mum that she was too ferocious when my mumbeat my sister and me. i tried to call my aunty earlier to explain to her butshe did not pick up the phone. let me call my mum tonite.

Friday, January 18, 2008

can u buy me lunch today?

i wanna shoot myself on my feet. this is the 2nd consecutivefriday that i forgot to bring my wallet. i did not realize thati left my wallet at home until i am on my way to my office andhalf way there. so.....no ID, no $, no visa, no mastercard, etc ....all this happened after i cleaned up my "library" and get rid of allthe junk knick-knacks and rearranging some stuff. i thoughti had this in mind that, never leave home without;